Thread: Disco S1 V8 info

as far as fuel consumption goes, expect no better than around 17-19l/100km for a 3.9l in good condition on a economy highway run. i've got a 4.0L in my 110 thru a LT95 4 speed. i managed to get 15.45L/100km on a run from sydney to cooma at around 90km/h (to save fuel) with the aid of a fuel catalyst that improves my economy by around 10%.
i got 22l/100 fully laden crossing the simpson from east to west with this motor, then 26/100 driving around alice springs.
good luck

I drove S1s 3.9s when they were new, regularly, and I remember slipping into the high 14s on an easy cruise. I guess it's pretty much irrelevant, to me anyway, unless I do more than the 5000km or so a year that I expect to.

FWIW, I remeber Overlander did a comparison of both 3.5 and 3.9 Disco V8s when the 3.9 came out, and the 3.5 was much more thrifty - something like 12L/100km compared to 14L/100km driving for economy (don't quote me, my grey cells are getting even more grey these days).

Even S2s are getting into the mid-teens or less price-wise. Almost worth going for one of those...

mine only gets driven after work and on the weekends
on average i only use about $50 a week

Originally posted by Utemad

I'd hate to have bought one just before the petrol prices went up, up, up. That would have been before the V8 prices went down, down, down

Pick me for doing that
Didn't see the oil price hike coming but she is on LPG now so the pain is bearable. 8)

I'll be her proud owner for quite a while to come :roll:

Ralph

Had a 95 3.9 auto Rossignol from new, did lots of highway at 22 mpg, but around Sydney town, a tank lasted only 320km.

My current 93 3.5 shows 16.6 l / 100km as it has for the past three years...(country running, we don't have traffic lights up here around Lismore), ran it dry recently, the tank ran 550kms.

GQ